Category Manager, GPO Tech Category

Description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us reinvent how a global organization buys the goods and services that power its operations, this is your chance to make history.

We are seeking a Category Manager to own and strategically source goods and services globally across Worldwide Operations (WWOps) on behalf of the Global Procurement Organization (GPO). This role sets category strategy, leads cross-functional sourcing teams, negotiates with suppliers, and partners with our most senior stakeholders to advance the full set of GPO strategic imperatives: delivering savings, mitigating risk, and improving productivity, while also expanding managed spend coverage, creating value across the supply chain, driving commercial excellence and compliance, unlocking supplier innovation, and pursuing optimization and standardization s role will be expected to modernize the procurement process itself, using AI and automation to make sourcing faster, smarter, and more scalable.

• Establish global category sourcing strategies; lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers, and execute contracts to optimize Amazon's competitive position across WWOps.

• Provide guidance on the development, execution, and management of category sourcing strategies for purchases across the enterprise.

Identify, achieve, and report on savings and value targets for all category sourcing activities.

• Collaborate with business teams and procurement functional areas, including supplier diversity, finance, legal, and procurement operations, as the global category procurement expert.

• Partner with businesses and key stakeholders to optimize supplier relationships for innovation, value realization, continuous improvement, and risk mitigation.

• Lead the negotiation and implementation of supplier agreements/contracts, working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on terms and conditions.

• Align with internal customers and deeply understand the business application of the portfolio.

• Act as a market intelligence provider for the category; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed on market shifts, licensing model changes, and emerging suppliers.

• Help develop long-term department strategies and significantly influence cross-company project development, delivery processes, and standards.

• Reimagine the procurement process end-to-end using AI, identifying high-friction, manual, or repetitive steps (intake, supplier research, contract review, renewal tracking, spend analysis) and deploying AI/automation to eliminate them.

• Use AI-driven tools to accelerate market and supplier intelligence, benchmark pricing, surface consolidation and rationalization opportunities, and flag renewal and compliance risk earlier.

• Build repeatable, data-driven playbooks and standardized workflows that scale across WWOps with less manual effort.

• Partner with internal tech, finance, and procurement operations teams to pilot and adopt AI capabilities, measure their impact, and champion adoption across the broader GPO organization.

• Establish metrics that quantify efficiency gains (cycle-time reduction, hours saved, coverage expanded) and report on them as a core deliverable of the role.

A Category Manager in GPO owns a global category across WWOps, blending strategy, negotiation, and process reinvention into each day. Mornings start with data: reviewing refreshed spend, renewal timelines,…